Cheatin’ baseball and the worry about the future

As goes baseball, so goes America.
There aren’t many things a time traveler from 150 years ago would recognize about modern America. Baseball is one of them. Once he got over the shock of $10 hotdogs and $20-million second basemen, the bases are still 90 feet apart. It’s still three strikes and you’re out.
The curtain will soon rise on the 2020 season with a mushrooming scandal clouding the future. By now, everyone — even non-baseball people — knows the Houston Astr